even though I've shut off everything but Bing wallpaper, when I try to load Adobe flash I get a message to shut off Internet Explorer. I click on retry and then get the results you know about; Adobe says flash is working but Youtube et. al. says no it ain't. I think I once got an error code trying to load flash, it might have said line 69, character 148 was the error. I'm not sure I'm remembering that right. Should I try and set a restore point? My flash worked fine until about 2 weeks ago.

the forum says you've helped a lot of people. I hope we can continue your good batting average.

then at my end it's showtime. before the show (clean installation) starts, it's great that you are someone I can rely on. All for now, it's almost 5 a.m., I just got back from work and all I want is to be horizontal and unconcious. A final report soon and thank you.

thanks for trying. I may get a new computer or I might look at Microsoft Silverlight. This really is a waste of time. the only thing I can think is that I don't have a browser window for AOL+HP but, when I look to restart, that home page pops up. and I can't right click and close my IE window.